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  • Tony Abbott

    Just in time for Christmas comes a fantasy epic from one of today's most popular writers for children. It is the story of a young orphan realizing his destiny -- to become the legendary Kris Kringle.

    Unlike the traditional Santa Claus myth, KR...




  • Marcie Aboff

    Everyone's favorite ogre is back! It's Shrek Classic a new line of books featuring the big green guy and all his friends.

    Join Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, Puss in Boots, and all the other Shrek characters as they get ready for the holidays. What do ...




  • Cherry Adair
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    Kendall decks the halls, unaware that a serial killer has her on the top of his list. Of course, being naughty with the sexy good guy sent to protect her would be so nice....



  • Kylie Adams
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    Peri Knight has had it with being good. She's made a list of her top five sexiest fantasies, and in the week before Christmas, she's going to live out every single one......



  • David A. Adler

    Detective Jeffrey Bones solves crimes?but this time it?s personal. He?s at a science museum when his blue Tyrannosaurus rex goes missing. Could someone have stolen it? Bones must find his T-rex! Hopefully there?s something in Bones?s detective bag th...



  • Pamela Aidan

    The exciting conclusion to the Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy recounts the climactic events of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice from its enigmatic hero's point of view. One of the most beloved romantic heroes in all of literature, Fitzwilli...




  • Rochelle Alers
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    Tragedy forced Rhianna Campbell to leave the small town of Shepherd, New York, for Los Angeles. Years later she returns to find an angry Emery Sutherland, her former fiance's brother, who resents her for having left after his twin brother and parents...



  • Carly Alexander

    Falling in love during the holidays can be naughty and oh-so-nice ... So much for the glamorous life this holiday season. Last year, Olivia Todd was onstage in New York with the other fabulous Rockettes; this year, her whole holiday has just been ...



  • Tasha Alexander

    Emily agreed to wed Philip, the Viscount Ashton, primarily to escape her overbearing mother. Philip's death while on safari soon after their wedding left Emily feeling little grief, for she barely knew the dashing stranger. But her discovery of hi...



  • Victoria Alexander

    Dashing Jonathon Effington, the Marquess of Helmsley, has had more than one lady willingly fall into his arms. But he's so delicious none has ever complained at their inevitable parting. And while Jonathon's no stranger to passion of the flesh, his h...



  • Laura Marie Altom

    In a Cabin by the Sea Gillian Logue's first assignment as a U.S. Marshal takes her to a cabin on the Oregon seacoast. This is her chance to prove to her brothers -- all marshals -- and to herself that she's good at her job. She'll keep Joe Morgan ...



  • Jorge Amado




  • Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A relentless horde of renegade robots has plunged the fate of Xanth into dire peril. All that stands between the enchanted land and destruction is a most unlikely hero, a moody, mild-mannered Goblin named Goody, who must summon all of his courage and...



  • Lindsay Armstrong

    When passion leads to pregnancy...will it also bring marriage? She was a virgin and he got her pregnant. Now Australian millionaire Jack McKinnon wants to marry Maggie. Maggie isn't about to let her life be taken over, however good Jack mak...



  • Jennifer Ashley
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    Holiday Madness: One wannabe dominatrix. A sexy Scotsman. Twenty-seven relatives. An ex-convict uncle on the lamb. A sheriff hot on his heels. A Christmas pageant decorated like a department store white sale. A Tony award-winning actor better k...



  • Charles Atkins

    There are times when a trusted "friend" is so filled with hatred that he will do anything possible to ruin the other. Ed, Peter, and Beth had been friends through medical school. At the Cadaver's Ball, the somewhat ghoulish-named celebration that is ...



  • Deborah Turrell Atkinson

    Storm Kayama needs to build her clientele, so when surf promoter Marty Barstow's wife Stephanie walks into her new law office, Storm agrees to represent her, despite her distaste for a bitter divorce situation. When Stephanie's son Ben, a promisin...



  • Margaret Atwood

    For Penelope, wife of Odyseeus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband was off fighting the Trojan war was not a simple business. Already aggrieved that he had been lured away due to the shocking behaviour of her beautiful cousin Helen, Penelope mus...



  • Lynn Austin / Lynn N. Austin

    Thirty-five years ago Kathleen fled her home, desperate to cast off weights of poverty and shame. But an unexpected invitation from her sister unwittingly draws her back to that sleepy New York town, her own daughter in tow. A trip meant to salvage...



  • Adam Bagdasarian

    Growing up male - funny, touching, and as unexpected as life itself!This collection of finely crafted stories from the acclaimed author of Forgotten Fire zeros in on the moments of comic confusion and tender transformation that make up one boy...



  • Madeline Baker

    The desperate convict... Wrongly convicted of murdering his wife, Nathan Chasing Elk has never lost hope of avenging her death and reclaiming his lost daughter. His only chance is to break free from prison -- but with his escape comes a grave injury ...



  • David Baldacci

    It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the "truth" behind their country's actions. One man leads this aging...



  • Anjali Banerjee

    It seemed like a good idea at the time. Lina Ray has a knack for pairing up perfect couples as a professional matchmaker in San Francisco, but her well-meaning, highly traditional Indian family wants her to get married. When her Auntie Kiki introduce...



  • Kate Banks

    A friendship transcends distance and time
    Ollie is a great whistler, while Lucrezia can’t whistle at all. Ollie has traveled the world, but Lucrezia is afraid of the dark and hates goodbyes. Yet, despite their differences, Ollie and Lucrezia hav...



  • Leanne Banks
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    After her best friend disappears, Hilary takes matters into her own hands and finds herself caught in the throes of danger, while a hunky male operative hopes to mix pleasure with business....



  • Lynne Barasch

    An introduction to the very human side of Albert Einstein

    April’s older sister, Annabel, is in danger of failing math, so April enlists the help of a famous scientist, sending a math problem to Albert Einstein at his home in Princeton, Ne...



  • Elaine Barbieri

    HIS SHIELD AND GUN WERE HERS TO COMMAND Stalked by a killer after discovering his nearly untraceable chemical weapon, scientist Natalie Patterson collided with one of New York's finest -- rugged homicide detective Brady Tomasini. The elegant scien...



  • Suzanne Barr

    After young Richard's mother dies, he overhears the wealthy family friends, Ashton and Iris Burke, saying that they could not take him into their home. He is later adopted by the Johnsons, but hates the working class life that he endures throughout h...



  • T.A. Barron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Racing against time, three companions embark on separate, far-reaching quests. Elli must outwit a wrathful dragon and a deadly assassin on her search for a powerful crystal; Scree must confront the darkest secrets of his own past, and Tamwyn must jou...



  • Christina Bartolomeo

    No job. No heat. The wrong shoes. The wrong clothes. Discover if true love can be far behind. Imagine having always lived in Washington, D.C., and suddenly being stuck in Portland, Maine, for a year. With the pipes freezing---inside the house. And a ...



  • Mitchell Bartoy

    1940's Detroit: the war effort is in full swing and racial tensions are running high. When a vivacious white heiress is murdered in the black part of town, the city threatens to erupt into mob violence, bringing the factories to a grinding halt and i...



  • Colin Bateman

    Eddie Had never even heard of Oliver Plunkett"or his sacred old head"until the head was stolen. Now he has three days to find it and reap the rewards. And he has just the friends to help: Gary, a new classmate with a knack a for blowing things up...



  • Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    Andy Carmichael, a reporter given the chance to cover the story that will make his career, finds more than he bargained for within the pages of Miss Penbrook's diary. The Color of the Soul will keep readers captivated from beginning to end....



  • Maggie Bateson

    The fairies of Snowberry Wood live in a sparkling world of ice and snow. This story unfolds this magical world of frozen waterfalls, snowy markets and cosy cabins. These fairies can go from scene to scene, zooming down ice toboggans, skating on the l...



  • Mary Lynn Baxter

    Her dream of becoming a fashion model shattered by a car accident, Kaylee Benton has a successful career running a top Texas modeling agency. But the scars run deep. She longs for two things she believes she can never have: a husband and a child. Whe...



  • Kate Benson

    Those who live in the isolated port town of Two Harbors, Minnesota, still remember the strange downfall of Lila Maywood -- a striking beauty who abandoned her family for Hollywood with dreams of becoming a movie star. Lila's disappearance has defined...



  • Jim Benton

    Scholastic presents the MUST-HAVE gift for the holiday season: a full-color, full-of-laughs book based on the best art-brand license of 2004, It's Happy Bunny!


    Astrology is all about YOU! What's not to love?

    Find out: What makes YO...




  • Heidi Betts

    Today is Gwen Thomas's 31st birthday. She's given herself T-minus 24 hours to change her life. 8:00 a.m.: Call out sick from library. 8:01 a.m.: Scour phone book for Emergency Beauty Technicians. 10:00 - Noon: Hair. Goodbye, mousy. Hello, au...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    AveryIsIn: hi HJFan -- you'll never guess what happened. Supposedly I'm a dangerous cybercriminal, and the feds have come knocking down my door. They think I'm in contact with some supervillain -- but I never leave the house, and you're the only one ...



  • Ilsa J. Bick

    Starfleet Corps of Engineers Trapped on a strange world, Dr. Elizabeth Lense finds herself aiding the Jabari freedom fighters as their new medic, working with equipment she finds primitive on people wounded in their fight against the Kornak. All the...



  • Olga Bicos

    Famed nature photographer Clayton Chase survived a lightning strike - only to discover his wife brutally slain. Clay can recall nothing of that fateful night. But when an autopsy revealed that his wife was pregnant with another man's child, the headl...



  • Kristin Billerbeck

    With her two best friends, Lilly Jacob is contemplating life, love, and the pursuit of the perfect pedicure. When Lilly Jacob's coveted promotion as a fashion designer is given to a less-talented co-worker and her boyfriend develops issues with mo...



  • Charlotte Bingham

    When the famous portrait artist Napier Todd stumbles across Edith Hanson scrubbing floors, he is immediately struck by her beauty. Within a few weeks Napier and Edith are married and she moves into his large country house ? much to the envy of the ot...



  • Donna Birdsell

    The Duke of Canby has been missing and presumed dead for six years before the fateful day when his clothes are found in the forest - and his falconer, Selena Hewitt, is accused of his murder. But Canby lives... Known as The Falcon, Canby is a spy...



  • John Birmingham

    It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay. The only question: Who's going to drop it first? The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the re...



  • Laurie Bishop

    A Delicate Operation Since her father's death, Cora MacLaren has lived with various sickly relatives, exchanging her resourcefulness and excellent nursing skills for bed and board. Her latest situation, however, presents unusual complications....



  • Rosanne Bittner

    Devastated by the droughts and plagues that have ravaged her family's homestead on the Nebraska Plains in the 1870s, settler Ingrid Svensson regards wealthy Jude Kingman as her sworn enemy. But Ingrid gradually sees that Jude shares her commitment...



  • Daniel Black

    A stunning literary debut about coming back home again.Twenty-eight-year-old protagonist Tommy Lee Tyson steps off the Greyhound bus in his hometown of Swamp Creek, Arkansas -- a place he left when he was eighteen, vowing never to return. Yet fate an...



  • Russell Blackford

    Jack Denham, grandson of moviemaker Carl Denham (who brought Kong to New York in 1933) clashes with a ruthless business magnate, Carlton Hemming, as both attempt to clone the giant ape, Kong, from blood samples discovered by a high-steel worker in 19...



  • Gary Blackwood

    Washington, D.C., 1864: In a city that’s weary of war and eager for entertainment, Joseph and his father’s mind-reading act has become the toast of the town. Even President Lincoln comes to see Joseph demonstrate his amazing mental powers. It’s...



  • Chris Blaine

    Purchasing a restored Victorian house called The Abbadon Inn in the picturesque shore town of Cape May, New Jersey, John and Karen Dalton stumble upon the love letters of Jack Cooney, a long-dead mobster, which reveal the bizarre and bloody history o...



  • Nero Blanc

    This holiday season, crossword editor Belle Graham and her PI partner Rosco Polycrates must restore a historic treasure to the local inn and trace the origins of a very special cookbook... everyone in Newcastle, Massachusetts, gathers 'round to d...



  • Lenore Blegvad

    After the world-famous author, Rudyard Kipling, and his wife move into the house next to their farm in rural Vermont, young Kitty is excited by her new and interesting creative neighbor from whom she learns a lot about the world, yet when the communi...



  • Teresa Bodwell

    EVERY HEART NEEDS A HOME Miranda Chase can't refuse when her pregnant sister Mercy asks her to return to their Colorado ranch, even though her sister's new family is a painful reminder of everything Miranda knows she'll never have. She...



  • Cheryl Bolen

    A FROSTY WEDDING Lady Fiona Hollingsworth never thinks of herself as particularly daring--until she learns that her beloved brother needs her help. But when Fiona approaches the powerful and enigmatic Nicholas Birmingham with a scheme in mind, she i...



  • Edward Bolme
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The second book in a trilogy set in the exciting new world of Eberron!
     

    The Orb of Xoriat continues the story line in the Eberron series that focuses on war-torn souls who have known nothing but a world in chaos. This is the second book i...



  • Rebecca Bond (1)

    Maggie visits the Christmas tree man on Liberty Street, then brings her brothers, sister, and finally her parents, as they each dream their own dreams of what it means to have a Christmas tree in the city....



  • Stephanie Bond

    START WITH BAD MOJO... There's something strange afoot in the small town of Mojo, Louisiana. Yet even as the annual voodoo festival gets underway, Penny Francisco, who runs a health food business, refuses to believe in black magic. Her mind is on ce...



  • Anne-Laure Bondoux

    After intentionally getting himself expelled from Realm One, Linus Hoppe believed he would experience more of real life. But life in inferior Realm Two is a nightmare. For months Linus has been imprisoned in a factory, where he toils on an assembly l...



  • Elizabeth Boyle

    Everything ended with a kiss... When the rakehell Lord Jack Tremont kissed Miranda Mabberly, mistaking her for his mistress, neither realized his reckless act would cost Miranda her reputation, her fiance, and her future. But for Jack, it was a ki...



  • Celeste Bradley

    They are known simply as The Royal Four--but there's nothing simple about the elite band of spies who serve the King in secrecy. Their missions are dangerous, their love lives are scandalous...and each man in the Royal Four has his own secrets. This ...



  • Max Brand

    The three short novels in this new Max Brand(r) trio comprise the story of John Penny Thurlow, better known as the Duster. When the Duster arrives in the town of Christmas, he insists that he wants to go straight, to live an ordinary life. He wants t...



  • Jay Brandon

    Soon after starting his career, San Antonio lawyer Chris Sinclair defended his longtime friend, high school teacher Henry Claremont, against a charge of rape brought by a student -- though in doing so, he had to expose an affair Claremont was having ...



  • Beverly Brandt
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    Four fabulous authors deliver the whole truth and nothing but the truth about men, women, and the delicious games they play when it comes to love.   Is he into me? Is he just playing games? Falling in love is never easy, but there’s nothing li...



  • Gary Braver

    If you could relive your childhood, would you? What if you had no choice? On the thirty-fifth anniversary of his parents' mysterious drowning, Jack Koryan returns to his family beach cottage. During a swim, Jack is attacked by a school of rare jel...



  • Mary Brendan

    Miss Silver Meredith. Beautiful, just eighteen...and vulnerable to the worst sort of scandal after an attempted elopement goes wrong. Her reputation and her future depend on the silence of one man... Adam, Marquess of Rockingham. A rake from the m...



  • Caitlin Brennan

    Striving to save the Aurelian Empire, Valeria reached for too much power too quickly and a darkness has rooted inside her. Unable to confess the truth, Valeria turns to Kerrec, her former mentor, one of the elite Riders from the Mountain, home of the...



  • Emily Brightwell

    ALL IS NOT CALM Sir George Braxton was found lying face down in a frozen fountain with the back of his skull bashed to bits. The case is complicated by a distinct lack of holiday cheer in the victim's three argumentative middle-aged daughters and th...



  • Don Brine

    Where there's a CODE there's a COD ... In the not so distant past, a man had a Very Cunning Theory which he wrote down in a book, and it proved to be very popular indeed. In the very distant past, a man was born who had a wife, who had a child, wh...



  • Pamela Britton
    in

    Biologist Kaitlyn Moneypenny's research is finally leading to a big scientific breakthrough . . . and mortal peril. When bullets start to fly, so do the sparks between Kaitlyn and her Santa-clad rescuer....



  • Annette Broadrick

    RUNNING FROM HIS PAST Delta Force agent Jase Crenshaw knew no one would be looking for him in the remote cabin. The solitude suited him fine. No prying family, no concerned colleagues...and no one to point a deserving finger of blame. His physical wo...



  • Bill Brooks

    A talented healer forced to become a fugitive for a killing he wasn't responsible for, Jake Horn found sanctuary in the rough Dakota town of Sweet Sorrow -- and in the tin badge that marks him as the local law. Now his discovery of a dead ranch hand ...




  • Josie Brown

    Here are the three most common lies women hear in Hollywood: "You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen." "I'd like to put you in my next movie." "I think I'm falling in love with you." If anyone has heard it all, it's Hannah. As the ...



  • N.M. Browne


    An adventure of fate and choice in a mythical world.

    A loner by nature and handicapped by her “fits,” young Nela chooses to forgo a typical woman’s path and dedicate her life to archeology. On an expedition to discover the origins ...



  • Dixie Browning

    Reeling from the scandalous ruin of her career and love life, Laurel Ann Lawless escaped to North Carolina, her hopes pinned on land she inherited. But the property was worthless. So she turned to relatives she'd never met...and discovered family. ...



  • Gayle Buck
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    Christmas Cheer is hard to come by for a newly wed lady pining for her home and family -- until her husband gives her a holiday surprise to remember forever......



  • Mark Buckingham

    Paul Jenkins wraps up his five-year tenure as a Spider-Man writer and brings Spectacular Spider-Man to a close in a moving, self-contained tale that reunites him with artist Mark Buckingham. Plus, two spectacular standalone stories! First up: Ben...



  • Michael Buckley

    For Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, life hasn't been a fairy tale. After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, the sisters are sent to live with their grandmother -- a woman they believed was dead! Granny Relda reveals that the girls have two famo...



  • Michael Buckley

    For Sabrina Grimm, living in a community of fairy-tale characters means always being ready for trouble. And something is definitely wrong at her new school. The adults seem too angry, the kids seem too sleepy, and the gym teacher likes dodgeball way ...



  • Jeff Buick

    Veritas Pharmaceuticals is a corporate powerhouse, one of the largest drug companies in the country. But many of the drugs Veritas puts on the market are extremely dangerous, even potentially fatal--and Bruce Andrews, CEO of the company, is well awar...




  • Nancy Bush

    Jane Kelly is through following men. She left Southern California for the murky quaintness of Lake Chinook, Oregon, apparently so she could trade her bartending skills for much more glamorous work: process serving. And the boyfriend, of course, is lo...



  • Candace Bushnell

    The new novel that fans of the bestselling author have been waiting for, about three sexy, powerful career women who will do anything to stay at the top of their fields Victory Ford is the darling of the fashion world. Single, attractive, and iconocl...




  • Nancy Butler
    in

    When a literary lady -- and confirmed Londoner -- has to arrange a country house party to impress her wealthy beau, she receives much more than domestic tips from a Welshman who longs to spend Christmas with Dora Davenport......



  • Octavia E. Butler

    Shori is a mystery. Found alone in the woods, she appears to be a little black girl with traumatic amnesia and near-fatal wounds. But Shori is a fifty-three-year-old vampire with a ravenous hunger for blood, the lost child of an ancient species of ne...



  • Janie Bynum



  • Adrianne Byrd
    in

    For Gia Hunter, Christmas usually brings unhappy memories. Seventeen years ago her husband was killed in combat. As a teenage mother and widow, she was forced to give up their infant daughter, Starr. In a twist of fate, Starr's adoptive father, Danie...



  • Nicole Byrd

    Clarissa Fallon is not accustomed to fancy parties or the luxuries of wealth. When her widowed mother died after her brother had shipped out to sea, she was sent to an orphanage and then sold into servitude to a tyrannical employer. But when her b...



  • Lisa Cach
    in

    Holiday Madness: One wannabe dominatrix. A sexy Scotsman. Twenty-seven relatives. An ex-convict uncle on the lamb. A sheriff hot on his heels. A Christmas pageant decorated like a department store white sale. A Tony award-winning actor better k...



  • Dia Calhoun

    A journey through madness and mania

    On the island of Faranor in the kingdom of Windward, twelve princesses dance their shoes to shreds each night. No one knows why. Not the king or queen. Not the knights, lords, or ladies-in-waiting. When t...



  • Pete Callahan

    The warfare continues as North Korea continues its campaign to unite the Korean Peninsula under the leadership of the beloved dictator, while Lt. Jack Hansen of the American 1st Tank Battalion continues to hold off the invaders, confronting all new t...



  • Truman Capote

    “Witness the coming together of Truman Capote’s voice, the electric-into-neon blaze that is surely one of the premier styles of postwar American literature.” -- The Washington Post Book World “A great breezy read . . . with Capote’s tradema...



  • Jonathan Carroll

    For connoisseurs of imaginative fiction, the novels of Jonathan Carroll are a special treat that occupy a space all their own. His surreal fictions, which deftly mix the everyday with the extraordinary, have won him a devoted following. Now, in Glass...



  • Marisa Carroll

    Cottonwood Lake was so calm, it looked like glass. So why did Nate Fowler feel as if he was at the center of an out-of-control storm? Sarah Taylor. Here on his doorstep. The last person he'd ever expected to see was his ex-wife -- with a child, no...



  • Timothy Carter

    When not fending off school bullies, Conrad and his best friend Knowlton are wrapped up in Infinite Destiny, their favorite sci-fi television show. It's no wonder Conrad often dreams about aliens and space chases, but one day the two science fiction ...



  • Dianne Castell

    The Colonel Has a Surefire Prescription for the Doctor Dr. Barbara Jean Fairmont desperately wants a baby in her life. Being forty and single, though, her hopes for adoption are fading fast. So when old high school flame Colonel Flynn MacIntire co...



  • Christopher Castellani

    It is 1953 in the tight-knit Italian neighborhood in Wilmington, Delaware. Maddalena Grasso has lost her country, her family, and the man she loved by coming to America; her mercurial husband, Antonio, has lost his opportunity to realize the American...



  • Jonatha Ceely

    “A lovely book.” raved Anne Rivers Siddons about Mina, Jonatha Ceely’s luminous debut novel. “Suspenseful…evocative…meticulously researched,” praised the Boston Globe. Now Ceely returns to the tumultuous mid-nineteenth- century landscap...



  • Michelle Celmer

    "I'm here to protect you." -- Connor Thorne, Ex-Texas Ranger Connor's words sent Nita Windcroft's temper soaring. She didn't need a man glued to her side twenty-four hours a day. Especially a man like Connor -- one who was used to getting what he ...



  • Janet Chapman

    She must choose between her destiny...and her desire. As soon as Pine Creek's new mystery man steps into her art gallery, Winter MacKeage is intrigued. This sexy stranger, Matt Gregor, wants her to do some drawings of his dream house. And with hi...



  • Kate Charles

    Life in the clergy is quiet, respectful, peacefulor so Callie Anson believes when she begins her new job as curate to the Reverend Brian Stanford at All Saints' Church in Paddington. Little does she realize how wrong she could be. After the traumati...



  • Judy Christenberry

    PRIVATE INTERVIEW WITH SEXY TEXAN AUTHOR Q: Dr. Alex Myerson, is it possible to overcome heartbreak and find that special person meant just for me -- er, I mean you? A: Read Making the Most of Life, Tabitha Tyler, and you'll have your answer! I...



  • William Christie

    Now, he returns with a chillingly timely novel that has America taking the war to the enemy--and the enemy taking terror to America... In the war on terrorism, the Secretary of Defense assembles an elite new armed forces group made up of the best f...



  • Scott Ciencin

    Zorro behind the mask is a daring defender of freedom and justice, wielding sword and whip with unparalleled skill in defense of the common people's cause.Zorro without the mask is Don Alejandro de la Vega, wealthy landowner and as much of a family m...



  • Scott Ciencin

    She can do anything-and you can help her! Masters of Mayhem (Pick a Villain Chapter Book #3): Four of the world's most creative villains are arguing about who is the baddest bad guy of all. To prove their cases, each of the villains agrees to a test....



  • CLAMP

    Kimihiro Watanuki takes a welcome break from his grueling service to the time-space witch, Yûko Ishihara, only to find himself mixed up in the strangest parade of the Japanese magical world. But a slipup reveals that Kimihiro is a powerless human! H...



  • CLAMP

    SYAORAN OVERMATCHED?!

    Young Syaoran and his friends are on a quest to retrieve the magically potent feather-shaped shards of Princess Sakura’s memory. The search has led them to the country of "to, a world with the romantic feel of Japan in...



  • Rita Cleary

    The expedition to transverse the North American continent led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark was an epic undertaking. In Calling the Wind, the explorers have spent a long, wet winter on the Pacific Coast and are eager to start home. They must ...



  • Douglas Clegg

    The New York Times bestselling novel of sword, sorcery -- and vampyres! From New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker award-winning author Douglas Clegg comes a heart-pounding heroic epic of gothic dark fantasy in The Priest of Blood, Book One of T...



  • Craig Clevenger

    Clandestine chemistry and the L.A. underworld provide the atmosphere for this tale of painful lost memories and the heartbreak of finding them.

    Eric Ashworth awakens in jail, unable to remember how he got there or why. His only memory is a wom...



  • Jake Coburn

    A crippling drunk-driving accident has cost basketball star Ted his cushy college scholarship and forced him into AA. But then a second chance comes in the form of a shocking offer: keep private-school princess and struggling bulimic Erica under surv...



  • J.M. Coetzee

    J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. J. M. Coetzee, one of the greatest living writers in the English language, has crafted a de...



  • Loren L. Coleman

    FOUNDATIONS OF BLOOD... Ian Davion--Prince's Champion of the Federated Suns--is a warrior who has lost his way. Amidst political rmoil and the shifting fortunes of war, he struggles to find his destiny.... Julian's First Davion Guards have rest...



  • Eoin Colfer

    After surviving a summer with the legendary ninja librarian Spud Murphy, not much can scare brothers Will and Marty Woodman. Until, that is, they travel with their family to the small seaside town famous for its resident ghost. Legend has it that whe...



  • Michael Connelly

    For defense attorney Mickey Haller, the clock is always running. With two ex-wives, four Lincoln Town Cars that he uses as offices, and dozens of guilty clients, he can't afford to miss a trick. When he gets picked by a Beverly Hills rich boy arreste...



  • Linda Conrad

    SCANDAL JUST WALKED BACK INTO TOWN Rich and powerful Chase Severin had returned for revenge on the town that had once cast him out -- and the woman who had scorned him. Years ago, he and heiress Kate Beltrane had scandalized everyone with their fo...



  • Gloria Cook

      This WWII historical saga “brings to life an all-too-human family as it changes during war, making this a must-read for all fans of this fine series” (Booklist). Tragedy and passion threaten to overwhelm the Harvey Family once again  ...



  • Caroline B. Cooney

    Walking around New York City was what Mitty Blake did best. He loved the city, and even after 9/11, he always felt safe. Mitty was a carefree guy -- he didn't worry about terrorists or blackouts or grades or anything, which is why he was late getting...



  • Stephen Coonts; Jim DeFelice

    RECRUITED: A crack team of cover agents. Word is out to ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean and his team of the National Security Agency: Infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power and derail a renegade general from acing an election. All...



  • Nicola Cornick
    in

    Three timeless romances to treasure this holiday season 'TIS THE SEASON FOR FALLING IN LOVE... A Handful of Gold by Mary Balogh Not only is Julian Dare dashing and wealthy, but he's the heir to an earldom. So what do you get a man who...



  • Patricia Cornwell

    Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, digs into a case more bizarre than any she has ever faced, one that has produced not only unusual physical evidence, but also tantalizing clues about the inner workings of an e...



  • Lyn Cote

    The women of Ivy Manor -- four generations of women who forged a dynasty amid the tapestry of the twentieth century... Elizabeth "Bette" Leigh McCaslin comes of age in the years before World War II. Although money is scarce in the aftermath of the D...



  • Nancy Cote

    An entertaining story of self-esteem and sibling rivalry follows a little boy, who is an only child and used to his parents' undivided attention, as he discovers that he has a sibling on the way and that it's no longer just about him!...



  • Audrey Couloumbis

    Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her sister Maude are orphaned for the second time, they decide to escape their self-serving guardians for the wilds of the frontier and...



  • Bruce Coville

    In The Dragon of Doom, Moongobble successfully completed his first mighty task -- collecting the Golden Acorns of Alcoona. So now it's time for him to complete the second one. he must bring back a bottle containing the tears of the Weeping Werewolf! ...



  • Greg Cox

    After one botched assassination attempt leads to the discovery of another high profile murder-for-hire in the works, Agent Sydney Bristow goes undercover to untangle a twisted plot of betrayal, terror, and revenge. Thrown into the midst of a dysfunct...



  • Harold Coyle

    New York Times bestselling author Harold Coyle's Cat and Mouse reveals the chaos of warfare as Islamic terrorists, lead by their most charismatic leader to date, form a powerful coalition in hopes of breaking America's will to continue the war on te...



  • Megan Crane

    "Exactly ten days after I'd come back to care for my dad, it occurred to me that I had turned into a housewife. Here I was, an angry and bitter housewife with perfectionist leanings and early signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Not just any house...



  • Isis Crawford

    As picturesque Longley, New York, gets ready to ring in the holiday season, caterers Bernadette and Libby Simmons are coping with their busiest time of year. If that's not enough to make them run around like crazed elves, they're recruited for a cook...



  • Christopher Paul Curtis

    MR. CHICKEE, the genial blind man in the neighborhood, gives nine-year-old Steven a mysterious bill with fifteen zeroes on it and a photo of a familiar but startling face. Could it be -- real? Well, Agent Fondoo of the U.S. Treasury Department and hi...



  • Margaret Daley

    To: Rachel, Pilar, Meg From: Anne Re: Fall carnival update! I couldn't believe it when the girls from the teen center transformed me into a lovely Cinderella for the fund-raising photos...but then to have youth minister Caleb Williams as my ...



  • B.J. Daniels

    He'd waited for this day -- this woman -- for forever it seemed. Harry Ballantine had been a prisoner of Fernhaven forest and now he found the key to his salvation in Jenna Dante. But would she surrender to him before she left the hidden hamlet? W...



  • Peggy Darty

    Christy Castleman, a pretty, young novelist, has made a name for herself writing books about mystery and intrigue. The Sassy Snowbirds, a group of lively ladies, spread fun, friendship, and good deeds around the seaside town of Summer Breeze. Everyo...



  • Kay David

    Julia Vandamme's nightmare began after she said, "I do." Her only comfort is her sweet little boy, and she's stayed in her marriage just for him. Jonathan Cruz is their one chance for escape, but before she and her son can know freedom, Julia has ...



  • Freda Davies

    A dead man in a suspiciously clean car has Gloucestershire-based DI Keith Tyrell unraveling an intriguing mystery, but just as he gets his first real break, the case is passed onto a central squad. Then Tyrell is asked to review evidence used in a fi...



  • Edith Kunhardt Davis

    The perfect Christmas gift for pat the bunny fans! Children and parents will love all the touch-and-feel elements in this ultra-adorable Christmas story as well as the huggable plush Christmas bunny ornament that comes in the boxed set"an amazing v...



  • Lexi Davis

    Three sexy bachelors with big plans. Longtime friends Rice, Coach, and Geffen can't believe it when they see an abandoned property just a stone's throw away from Rodeo Drive -- the dilapidated wreck is more haunted house than Hollywood high life. But...



  • Mary Eileen Davis

    Haley's heart would be safe on the island. Mackinac Island was the perfect place to soothe her wounds and avoid the manipulations of her family. But when a lone passenger boards her tour carriage, Haley Tindale feels the walls around her heart shakin...



  • Stephie Davis

    When she makes the varsity cross country team, Natalie finds her grades suffering from her new-found popularity and gets a very cute, yet very taken, tutor who unfortunately has no romantic interest in her. Original....



  • Louise de Teliga

    A girl can never have too much luck. . . Once upon a time, Josie Vaughn went from living the simple life to becoming the "it" girl of the fashion modeling scene. But the fairy tale abruptly ended, leaving her with no career, a stash of unpaid bills, ...



  • Sharon De Vita

    A WOMAN... Katie Murphy had some explaining to do -- starting with why she was digging up Sheriff Lucas Porter's backyard in the middle of the night. She was also a reporter, and Lucas had had his fill of the press after the tragic explosion that ki...




  • Gideon Defoe

    They’re back!!! The Pirate Captain and his irascible crew of scoundrels return in their soggiest saga yet.Fresh from their mishaps with Charles Darwin and the evil Bishop of Oxford, the Pirates set sail in a bouncy new vessel -- -- purchased on cr...



  • Marcy Dermansky

    On the eve of their thirteenth birthday, identical twins Chloe and Sue agree to get matching tattoos to prove their bond is stronger than DNA. So begins Twins, Marcy Dermansky’s funny and disturbingly honest debut novel, the extraordinary story of ...



  • Loraine Despres

    Belle Cantrell felt guilty about killing her husband and she hated that. Feeling guilty, that is. A lady shouldn't do something she's going to feel guilty about later was a rule Belle kept firmly in mind. Welcome to the world of beautiful, irrepress...



  • Jude Deveraux

    When Eden Palmer moved into Farrington Manor, the charming house that was willed to her, she hoped her new home in lovely Arundel, North Carolina, would provide the fresh start she needed. Her beloved daughter Melissa, whom Eden raised on her own, wa...



  • Joe DeVito; Brad Strickland

    Since its release in 1933, Merian C. Cooper's film King Kong has shocked and delighted generations of movie fans, setting the standard against which all such movies have been judged ever since. In December, 2005, Peter Jackson - whose films of the Lo...



  • A.J. Diehl

    memories can be murder "In one of the most shocking crimes in Los Angeles history, producer Eddie Ealing was found brutally murdered this morning at his home in the Hollywood hills. The body was found butchered in an eerie scene taken straight fro...



  • William C. Dietz

    REBO RUNNER JOB DESCRIPTION: INTERSTELLAR COURIER MISSION: TO CHANGE THE STATUS QUO... In a crumbling futuristic society, Earth is only a myth, the technological advances of centuries have faded into distant memory, and space travel depends on a...



  • Anita Doreen Diggs

    From the acclaimed author of A Mighty Love comes a bittersweet saga of love, friendship, sisters--and sisterhood. . . Half-sisters Asha Mitchell and Saundra Patterson are close even though they have almost nothing in common. Twenty-two-year-old Saund...



  • Christina Dodd

    LEARN HOW TO FLIRT IN TEN LESSONS OR LESS! Miss Caroline Ritter, accomplished flirt, acknowledged beauty, and ruined gentlewoman, offers lessons to any rich, noble lord too inept to attract a wife. Discard your silly affectations and your garish c...



  • Robert Doherty

    Pearl Harbor. The JFK Assassination. September 11th. What do these events have in common? They all may have been engineered by one of the most elite, powerful, and secret organizations . . . in the U.S. government. A botched hostage rescue in the ...



  • Cameron Dokey

    A face revealed, and rage unleashed -- old anger set upon the world. Three sisters must come together to fight or worse fates will surely be unfurled...

    The Bay Mirror is covering the grand reopening of Mural House, a San Francisco landmark built i...



  • James D. Doss

    TROUBLE SPREADS ITS WINGS Dr. Manfred Blinkoe is one orthodontist with a very checkered past. So when a fellow diner at Cedar Creek's poshest restaurant drops dead from an unseen assailant's bullet, he can't help thinking that he was the intended ta...



  • Paul Dowswell

    In the exciting tradition of Patrick O'Brian comes the saga of one boy's life in the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Thirteen-year-old Sam Witchall had always dreamed of a sailor's life, but he didn't realize how dangerous an...



  • Scout Driggs

    Edmund doesn't believe his sister Lucy when she says she has traveled to a magical land called Narnia by stepping through an old wardrobe. But even though it sounds impossible, he decides to follow her and see for himself. Soon Edmund not only fin...



  • Joan Druett

    Wiki Coffin, linguist aboard the U.S. Exploring Expedition, the famous voyage meant to put America at the forefront of 19th century scientific discovery, brings many skills to his job. Whether he's translating native languages, assisting his good fri...



  • Diane Duane

    Nita and Kit return from their wizardly holiday looking forward to getting back to their everyday routine. But there's trouble brewing. A strange darkness of the mind and heart is about to befall the older wizards of the world, stealing away their po...



  • Clare B. Dunkle

    For thousands of years, young women have been vanishing from Hallow Hill, never to be seen again. Now Kate and Emily have moved there with no idea of the land's dreadful heritage--until Marak decides to tell them himself. Marak is a powerful magician...



  • Jennifer Eachus

    Soft, luminous illustrations capture a child's expressions of wonder in this gentle tale of a little girl and her very special friend."What is wonder?" Lara asked her mother. "Wonder," her mother said, "is when the song thrus...



  • Kate Egan

    An ordinary game of hide-and-seek leads to the discovery of a lifetime! Before they know it, Lucy Pevensie and her siblings have traveled through a dusty old wardrobe and entered the magical land of Narnia. Once in Narnia, the real adventure begin...



  • Dave Eggers

    In this "tour de force" (New York Times Book Review), the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Circle demonstrates his mastery of the short story.“These tales reinvigorate … the short story with a jittery sense of adventure.” ...



  • Sarah Elliott

    "This isn't your first season, it it, dear?" "No. But it shall be my last!" Beatrice Sinclair prayed that her bold declaration would prove true. After so many fruitless years on the ton's marriage mart, life on the shelf seemed the more appealing...



  • Roger Elwood

    Stephen Bartlett, the Allies' top espionage and weapons expert, is on a daring, top-secret assignment behind enemy lines in a World War II Europe. His Mission, code named WOLF'S LAIR, is to help members of the resistance assassinate Richard Heydrich,...



  • Karen English

    By the Coretta Scott King Honor authorIn an urban rooftop garden, a young African American boy named Jamal initiates an intriguing conversation with his grandmother when he asks her if she was ever a baby. Turns out Grandma was even once ?the ...



  • Garth Ennis

    In the first story "In the Beginning," Frank Castle's old associate Microchip is back, and he's after the Punisher. But first, he's got an offer for Frank that he'd better not refuse. Get ready for blazing bullets, bloodbaths, and bold beginnings! In...



  • Nelson Erlick

    Someday soon: The use of animal organs in human patients has revolutionized medicine in the 21st century, freeing thousand of patients from dialysis, and sparing them the slow death of waiting for a human organ that may never come. Thanks to the disc...



  • Heather Estay

    Reentering the dating scene after divorcing an unfaithful and spendthrift husband, Angie Hawkins receives contradictory advice from her grown daughter and three best friends and finds herself falling for a married man. Original. A first novel. 35,000...



  • Jonathan Evans

    Paul Wood and his girlfriend, Talena, were just tourists in Sarajevo, a city still reeling from the aftermath of civil war. But an unexpected encounter makes them a desperate woman's only hope of escape. Now, to get her to safety, they must navigate ...



  • Nicholas Evans

    On a crystalline Montana morning, two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. She's Abbie Cooper, a brilliant college student on the run from the FBI and charges of murder. But what was the ch...



  • Richard Paul Evans

    “It has been said, ‘Seek not your destiny for it is seeking you.’” So begins this new and powerful novel from Richard Paul Evans, #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box, The Walk series, and more.In the wake of personal tragedy, two peopl...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm dodges death as a bigwig’s bodyguard!    Custis Long likes blowhard politicians even less than unwanted publicity. But he gets hit with both barrels when he saves presidential up-and-comer Gordon Maxwell from a deranged assa...



  • Gina Farago

    "Sometimes there are folks in this world who deserve a good killin'..." Ivy Cole has returned home to Doe Springs, North Carolina, a quiet community in the Blue Ridge Mountains, imbued with a special gift -- one that erupts howling on full-moon nigh...



  • Debbie Tanner Federici

    Teenagers are mysteriously disappearing in Tucson, Arizona, and other cities. One night, seventeen-year-old Taryn nearly becomes one of them when a revolting, unearthly creature attacks her. The touch of a Zumar warrior should render her unconscious,...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    When the vivacious MacKenzie Ryan met her dour new neighbor, it was hardly love at first sight. Not only was the self-contained research scientist gruff and rude, but MacKenzie was also grappling with a heartbreak that had shattered her heart -- and ...



  • Amy J. Fetzer

    IF THESE TWO-HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD WALLS COULD TALK... They'd tell of The Master, Cain Blackmon, presiding over his vast empire from the confines of an antebellum mansion, in a prison of his own making... And of Phoebe Delongpree, who demanded sanctuary...



  • Sandra Field

    Taken! As his lover for one night... Lia d'Angeli knew that billionaire businessman Seth Talbot could destroy her glittering career. But, even so, she succumbed -- just for one night! Revealed! The tycoon's mistress... Eight years later,...



  • Alicia Fields

    A mighty magnet for men, Aphrodite is beautiful enough to die for... Aphrodite has always been trouble. She's way too beautiful and can't resist romance-whatever the consequences. Plus, she's convinced the gorgeous Helen to elope with Paris- which...



  • Donna Fleisher

    A new home. A new life. To have both, she must outlast a bitter storm. Once Chris fought for her country. Now she’s fighting for her faith. And she’s about to fight for her life. This is no mere storm. It’s a deluge of catastrophic proportions....



  • Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    San Miguel de Allende is a picturesque town in central Mexico’s highlands that attracts artists, retirees, and those in need of some rest and relaxation. So when publisher Vaughan Buckley and his wife, Olga, invite Jessica to join them for a little...



  • Elaine Flinn

    HOUSE OF TREASURES ... AND HORRORS Carmel, California, antiques dealer Molly Doyle has an unerring eye for the rare and valuable -- which is why she's been hired to assess and sell the contents of the home of the late parents of insufferable local h...



  • Vince Flynn

    On the front lines of the global war on terror, CIA superagent Mitch Rapp races to save one more life: his own. An eye for an eye: that's what the powerful father of a dead terrorist demands in retribution -- and with his hate-filled plea, Mitch R...



  • Clyde W. Ford

    Winner of the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for Best Mystery/Suspense/Thriller! This gritty detective thriller, set in New York City, relates one African-American man's riveting quest for truth and redemption.Framed for murder duri...



  • Alan Dean Foster

    In the outer depths of the universe lies the Great Emptiness, behind which lurks something dreadful -- something that is now raging straight for the Commonwealth. To avert catastrophe, Flinx must find a conscious planet-size weapons system and, using...



  • Lori Foster
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    Officer Parker Ross hates Christmas; Lily Donaldson lives for it. She's determined to introduce him to the pleasures of the season, and he's looking forward to being deliciously converted......



  • Roz Denny Fox

    A Bridesmaid Thirteen Times Over. But Never a Bride? A painful betrayal drove wedding dress designer Sylvie Shea out of New York City to her North Carolina hometown. Now she outfits the town's brides and secretly works on her own wedding dress -- ...



  • Megan Frampton

    For Love or Money During the Season, debutantes rush to London to find a man who'll fill their hearts with love -- or their bankbooks with money. The Honorable Titania Stanhope is of the latter category. She simply has no choice -- for her fat...



  • John Francome

    Following a terrifying fall, jump jockey Phil Nicholas is beset by flashbacks and nightmares upon returning to the sport, but when a colleague is viciously attacked, he must somehow overcome his fears to save the sport and the woman he loves. Reprint...



  • E.R. Frank

    Dear anyone who cared about Cameron, I was the driver of the "other" car. The police and my mother and my father and plenty of people are saying that I didn't kill her. But I know I did. That's what her parents must believe. And my brother, Jack. H...



  • Al Franken

    The #1 New York Times bestseller by Senator Al Franken, author of Giant of the SenateSenator Al Franken’s landmark bestseller, Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, was praised as a “bitte...



  • Jennifer Frantz

    Meet the Pevensies! Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucyhave stumbled out of Professor Kirke's wardrobe and into the land of Narnia. Read and learn about these four siblings and their adventures in this magical world.

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